- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke
- Common name : Grass of the Dew
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional, above 750m and characteristically on exposed slopes by edges of rocks
- Flower, Fruit : July-November
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district, Guntur district, Srikakulam district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Eastern Himalayas, Indo-China, South China, Taiwan, Tropical Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1005; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyanotis arachnoidea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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